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Hypolais caligata.— Nest and two eggs taken at Ust- 

 Kamenogorsk on the Irtish River in about lat. 50° N. and 

 long. 82^ E., on the 9th of June, 1905. Hitherto I have not 

 been able to procure the eggs of this bird from a reliable 

 collector and have never seen a nest. 



Motacilla ocularis. — Nest and three eggs taken on the 

 river Lena in about 60° N. lat., in June 1907. 



Carpodacus erythrinus, subsp. grebnitskii. — Nest and three 

 eggs taken on the river Lena in about 60° N. lat., in June 

 1907. The eggs do not differ from those of C. erythrinus, 

 but the nest is larger and more loosely built. 



Emberiza leucocephala. — Nest and three eggs taken at 

 Kaimsk, near Tomsk, on the 24tli of May, 1907. Authentic 

 eggs of this species have hitherto been obtained from 

 Darasun, in Dauria, but these are from much further west 

 than any I have yet seen and are better marked than those 

 from Darasun. 



Pratincola maura. — Nest and two eggs with a Cuckooes 

 egg, taken near Tomsk on the 28th of June, 1907. My 

 collector informs me that the Cuckoo belongs to the form or 

 subspecies described by von Tschusi as Cuculus canorus 

 johanseni. 



Mr. CoLLiNGWOOD Ingram sent descriptions and examples 

 of two new species of birds from N. Queensland : — 



Neositta magnirostris, sp. n. 



Differs from N. striata in its generally larger size and 

 especially in its longer and more massive bill, the average 

 length of the culmen being 0*63 in., as compared to 0*53 in. 

 The bill is also considerably darker, being brownish-black 

 for at least three-fourths of its length, and cream-coloured 

 only at the extreme base, like that of N. pileata. In 

 N. striata the blackish marks are confined to the anterior 

 third or half of the bill, chiefly on the upper and lower 

 edges, the remaining area being lemon-yellow. The back 

 is noticeably greyer than in the last mentioned bird, 

 while the uuderparts are not so distinctly or so heavily 



